The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-14
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters OF Money and Management
About Various Lines.


All the freight conductors on the South
division of the Louisville, New Orleans and
Texas railroad, sent in their designations
Monday on account of cut in wages.
Civil Engineer Thomas Lee, who has been
engaged professionally on the railroad route
from Savannah to Barnwell, S. c., is in
Columbia, s. c., and will in a few days sur
vey the route from there on to Barnwell 1t
is understood at Columbia that syndicate
OF capitalists are interested in this proposed
| railroad, and that the completion of the road
| from Savannah TO Columbia is almost an
assured fact.
The Railway Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION at Troy, N. Y, is forming mu.
| scum of railway appliances and models of
appliances, such as whistles, lubricators,
oilcups, signals switch stands, pop-valves,
indicators, gauges, inlectors, brake valves
etc, and it invites manufacturers to assist
in their undertaking, and to send specimens
OF their manufacture, which will be pre-
served for inspection by the many railway
men who visit the rooms.
One of the most important gatherings of
railroad officials of the present year will oc-
cur this month in St Paul, MINI. On Sept.
20, will be held the convention of general
passenger agents of the United States and
Canada. The president of the convention is
Col G. p. Atmore, who now wears a hand
some diamond pin, which the delegates pre-
Sented to him upon his elecJion last year.
The gathering will be a very large one, and
the meeting will last several days. The in
vitations sent out by the committee on ar
rangementS are the most elegant and costly
invitations ever issued. Each invitation
costs So
Tuesdays Americas Recorder: Capt. j.
N. Bass, General Superintendent of the
Americas, Preston and Lumpkin railroad,
went ont to the front yesterday to inspect
the work of building the road on the eastern
division. Capt Bass informs us that the
road is completed to within four miles of
Abbeville, and that the first. train will
doubtless run into that town the last of this
week, and that passenger trains will be run
through regularly next week. The work
will not stop here for moment. however,
but will be pushed on rapidly to either Nc
Rae or Neville, which ever place may be
decided upon by the road authorities this
week as the eastern terminus.
Never in the history of Davidson county,
Tenn, has non-political question excited
so much interest and brought so many in
fluences to bear on the people as has the
proposition to subscribe 100000 to the Ten
nessee Midland Railroad Company. The
friends of the Midland are legion and are
working day and night, seeking by every
honorable means to obtain three-fourths of
the votes cast, the number necessary to
carry the county for the new road. Meet
ings are being held day and night at Nash
vile, and are largely attended. The only
enemy of the new enterprise is the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad. The National
Review announced itself for the Midland,
but has Topped to the other side, says Nash
vile dispatch. The Banner has been al
ways opposed to the road, and the fight be-
tween that journal and the American: is
Drettv hot